Nicola Nannini
Born in Bologna in 1972, lives and works in Cento (FE) and Verona. Active since the mid-nineties, in that period he held exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including Bologna, Ferrara, Milan, Rome, Brindisi, Turin, Reggio Emilia, personal and collective. From the early years 2000 espone in The Hague, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and London; the Szekesfehervar (HU) at the national gallery of modern art; Bologna at the monumental complex of S. Mary of Life; in Paris and New York in collaboration with WP Bologna; Verona at the Art Museum of S. Fermo Maggiore and Vicenza, with personal exhibitions. Participates annually in the main art fairs (Bologna, Milan, Bari, Verona, Padova, Strasbourg, Karlsruhe, Lille, Hamburg, London).
Between 2005 and the 2010 he is invited to exhibitions such as The Restlessness of the Face (BPL city, Lodi), Italian art 1968-2007 (Royal Palace, Milan) edited by Vittorio Sgarbi e New Realisms (PAC, Milan) edited by Maurizio Sciaccaluga. He is also invited to the Aldo Roncaglia Award, Sulmona Award, Michetti Award, Celeste Award, Archer Award (S. Antiochus) and Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. He exhibits at the Durini Foundation and at the Guicciardini Space in Milan. In 2011 he is invited to the 54th Venice Biennale, Emilia Romagna pavilion at Palazzo Fava in Bologna. In 2016 an essay is published on the first twenty years of his work, Present Imperfect edited by Raffaele Cresti (Pendragon Editions) presented at the Pordenone Literature Festival with a solo exhibition. The personal exhibition was held in the same year Declinations of the Landscape at the Stadtmuseum in Chiusa (BZ) is in the 2018 a first anthology is set up at the Palazzo dei Principi in Correggio (RE). He continues his collaboration with Italian galleries such as: Galleria Forni (Bologna), The Bridge 04 (Parish church of Cento), Nino Sindoni Gallery (Asiago), AreaB (Milan) and Le Muse (Andria). In 2020 is on display at the Vittoriale degli Italiani with Again curated by Giordano Bruno Guerri and at the PAC in Ferrara in the collective exhibition Fantastic Painters in the Po Valley edited by Camillo Langone. In 2021 he was invited to the Veneto Felice exhibition at the Le Carceri Museum in Asiago for the Brazzale Prize and later at the Eremitani Museum in Padua for Seeing the Stars again edited by Beatrice Codogno. They continue in 2022 group exhibitions in various Italian locations, including Andria, Brindisi, Varese, Bologna and Verona. In 2024 holds a second anthology at the MAC,N (Museum of contemporary and twentieth-century art) by title Artist Inventory edited by Silvia Di Paolo and Raffaele Normanno. In 2025 opens the double solo show entitled It's not dark yet, at the two offices of CUBO and Torre Unipol in Bologna, edited and with narrative text by Simona Vinci. He is also invited to the Palazzo Ricci museum in Macerata with the exhibition Lead the way together with Bartolini, Tonelli and Luino.
He has been a painting teacher at the Cignaroli Academy in Verona since 2004. There are numerous publications that concern him and deal with his work.
